The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-03
FAT WOMEN and lean
AND THE DIFFICULTIES THEY
HAVE In ACCOMMODATING
Themselves 10 the ChaBgirg FASH
iOns-Tho KBOtty Points OF
Anatomy Will chow.

NEW YORK. April .-Sarah Bern
hardt and her costumes are answer
able for much female ugliness in
New York at present. There is a
material difference, as we'll as diff
ference OF material in the makeup of
Sarah and the American women-the
same difference that there is between
an umbrella shut aud an umbrella
open. Sarah, who could chalk her
head and play billiard cue, or braid
her limbs and pass for a whip, is
much given to fluffy trimmings,
ruchings, puffings and masses of lace
and layers of ruffies. The ordinary
every day Yank has something more
than vertebral column on which to
hang her frocks. and directly she
goes to copying Bernhardt's costumes
she is wrecked. The advice that
Worth, the man milliner, gave to
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is as good
now as the day he gave it. Mrs.
Lincoln had a figure like Mrs. Camp,
but she concluded that Worth should
make her some dresses; so she sent
her photograph, a diagram of her
prominent places, a map of her
boundaries and principal annexa-
tions, with few minor details, to
the famous woman maker. That
worthy studied his instructions and
rendered this verdict:
II can do no moro for madame
than the American modiste. 1t is
with bone-bones | produce the great
effect. Allure all trimmings that
are not fiat, and avoid all garments
that are not dark"
Sarah wore, the first week of her
engagement here, mauve surab,
opening over loose loops of laces.
Straps of violet velvet banded this
mass down, and here and there
glimpse of the great actresses
clavicles cleaned and glinted
through. An ample lady in the
same hotel saw this gown, and deter
mined to reproduce it. She had a
dress made exactly like the great
tragedienne's, but it lacked the soft,
clingiug appearance of Sarah's robe,
and friend suggested that the fault
lay in the corsets. Bernhardt wears
no corsets. "Of corstS that" said
the plump one, and off hers came.
She had been wearing that gown up
and down the corridors Of the hotel
and making what the English cham
bermaid calls IAN oily 'orror hof
'erself;" for between the combining
straps there are series of ,bulges
that speak we'll for the cuisine of the
establishment.
But perhaps Nine. Addie Pose is
better off than Miss Emma Gated,
who lately went to a constructor Of
hosiery for the theatrical profession.
"You see" explained Miss Emma to
the attendant, II am very slender,
and the present fashion of tying ba,k
the skirts so tightly Is not at all be-
coming to me.
The clerk failed to understand,
and suggested that she was in search
of pair ofsymmetries, by which name
the stockings of falsity are known
mo" the girl said when shown these
,, articles, "they would not alter my
affecting case at all.
So tho forewoman was called, anG
in the recesses of an inner apartment
Emma confessed it was her knees
that gave her so much trouble
When she sat down with tightly
wrapped, clinging drapery pulled
over them, they stuck out like the
knobs on doors. So the customer il
wearing pair of stockings to be worn
under all her others-a sort of skele-
ton stocking, that has a stirrup in.
stead of a foot, is filmy about the
ankles but by graduated Jumps o.
silkeu floss gets gracefully bulgy
while the sharp kneecap of poor
Emma will be securely packed away
in a bed of padding, one over which
the most fashionable skirt can be
stretched without the angularity thai
has darkened her fashionable season
Moses W. Fisks, comedian, who
passed away recently, had gone
through more than the usual share
of professional ups and downs. One
, of his notable tours was that made
,, through Jamaica, West India, short
ly before the war. He seemed t,
, have become veritable troubadour
at least for that journey, because h,
went through all the principal citieI
and towns of the island, singing
, comic and sentimental songs, accom-
panying himself on the guitar ant
catching the yellow fever as a cul
: minating incident. Then he wen
!, back to Cincinnati and was drafted
, Fighting was not in his line just a
= | that time, so ne began TO play pos
sum. The jaundiced result Of tn
fever had not entirely faded from
=, his complexion, and at the prope
= moment he confded to the surgeon
in charge that he feared he was goin
to have another attack of Yelloy
Jack. That settled it. He got hi
discharge and was mustered out il
: less than fifteen minutes. Like man
another good actor, Fiske began lit
at the compositor's case.
= They do say that managing tn
capricious and antagonistic primi
r donnas of an opera company j
! nothing to the peaceful control of p
= L. Barnum and Adam Forepangh
= the circus men. The result of thei
! years of hot warfare is a temporar.
u armistice, under which they are Civ
= ing a joint entertainment in the Mad
= ison Square Garden. Sc seemingl
y small thing as the relative size o
:, the two names in the posters and ad
! refreshments was fixed in the con
= tract, and it is stipulated that il
g every instance "Barnum" shall be il
| precisely the same type as Fore
!, paugh." Agents of the magnate
visit the newspaper Offices to be
that no more attention be paid +
: the other fellow than to this fellow
g and there is a constant bickor as +
the prominence given in the enter
: tainments to the features provide,
= by the two concerns, for each is
+ take to its own separate route ate
. the departure from New York, ant
. neither partner means to let hi
r bosom enemy get the bigger share Q
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